This happened recently with a Department of Education award and we did not
activate the award until our principal investigator had IRB approval.
Also, we sometimes receive contracts for clinical trials with industry
sponsors before the IRB has approved the protocol and it is our policy not
to execute those contracts prior to the IRB approval.

Tom Wilson

At 01:58 PM 2/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
>What do you do if an NIH agency fails to address human subject issues,
>proceeds to send you an official award notice with no restrictions at all,
>then you discover the project needs IRB approval only after the award comes
>in?
>
>Do you:
>
>1) Call the agency and tell them what you discovered
>2) Make your own restrictions
>3) 1 Only
>4) 2 Only
>5) Both 1 and 2
>6) None of the above. Our institution ________________(fill in blank).
>
>(This is not a quiz. We just want to know what you do at your institution.)
>
>Thanks,
>Tim
>
>_______________________________________
>Tim Atkinson
>Director, Research Support Services
>Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
>1120 Marshall Street
>Little Rock, Arkansas 72202-3591
>Phone: 501-320-3581
>Fax: 501-320-3547
>E-mail: xxxxxx@exchange.uams.edu
>http://achri.ach.uams.edu/
>_______________________________________
>
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